Recent projects and projects-in-progress at Haghefilm
NFPF/NFSA
January 2009
Through a new program called 'Film Connection: Australia – America', American motion pictures from the silent era that no longer survive in the United States, will be preserved and accessed through the five major American silent film archives (the Academy of motion Picture Arts & Sciences, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Before the new film copies are 'repatriated' (copies will also publicly made available in Australia), the photochemical film preservation is done at Haghefilm in Amsterdam.
Presentation at the 2008 Giornate: Pandora’s Box, Digital post
production tools as a means of restoration
October 2008
Goal of this (Collegium) presentation was to provoke a discussion about how far one can go in using modern digital manipulation tools in the process of film restoration. Particular case-study was the digital restoration of Pandora’s Box (Germany, 1929, Dir. Pabst). For more information on the restoration, please see our news section.
Presentation at the 2008 Giornate: GEH/Fellowship film,
preserved by Tatiana Carvalho
October 2008
When Flowers Bloom (ca. 1929) was restored by Tatiana Souza Carvalho at Haghefilm Conservation in Amsterdam during the summer of 2008. Tatiana is a recent graduate from the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House and the 2008 recipient of the Haghefilm Fellowship.
Presentation at the 2008 Orphan Film Symposium: preservation
of Think of me first as a person (Dwight Core, Sr., George Ingmire, 1960-1975)
March 2008
The 16mm film was scanned to 2K resolution with Oxberry wetscan. The scan data was timed and edited on the Nucoda Film Master according to George Ingmire’s EDL. Several shots in the original 16mm film presented exposition and focus problems. Only some of the color shots displayed slight fading. There was only slight intervention on scratches, splices and stabilization problems in order to preserve the film’s original character. The sound was taken from the DVD (stereo sound), synchronized and then digitally restored (noise reduction).
Preservation of the Corrick Collection (National Film & Sound
Archive)
2007/2008
Haghefilm currently preserves parts of The Corrick Collection. This collection of 35mm nitrate films is a treasure trove of more than 135 films produced in the earliest years of the 20th Century. The films were exhibited as part of a highly successful musical and cinematic traveling show presented by the Corrick family wo toured Australia and overseas from 1901 to 1914.
Digital restoration of the Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
April 2007
The digital restoration of this film was assigned to us by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. The film by Charles Tait is widely regarded as the world’s first feature length film. Unfortunately, only parts of the original 70 minutes (approximately) have survived and some of them were in very bad shape. Nevertheless, it can be said that the result of the restoration is impressive.